Lola Rosario Aponte, artistically known as La Revolution, is a Nuyorican spoken word poet, social justice journalist, grant proposal writer, cultural guardian, and polyglot at five languages. She is a fierce defender of Spanglish, using it as a resistence machete because both inglés and español are colonizer idiomas – not our mother tongues.

With poems featured in The Acentos Review, Pamenar Press, Angel City Review, Hound Magazine, and Thin Air Magazine, among others, her work explores colonialism, diáspora–displaced AfroIndigenous identity and childhood sexual abuse. In April 2025, she was the featured artist at Nuyorican Poets Café/Loisaida Center’s Womxn Orator Wednesday. Lola is the author of the debut chapbook, Daughter de Borikén (Editorial Pulpo/2024). She has led creative writing workshops both virtually and in-person.

Lola’s reporting is published in Prism Reports, NACLA, palabra, The Latino Newsletter, Latina Media, Green Left (Australia), El Periódico Adoquín, and TodasPR, among others. She was a featured guest on El Pulso’s Leaving the American Dream podcast (August 2023). Her journalism work centers issues impacting both the island archipelago that is her birthright and the Puerto Rican diaspora, of which she will always be a part.

In the grant proposal writing sector, her focus is to obtain funding for Borinquen-based educational nonprofits servicing children, women and of particular interest, food sovereignty.

Lola returned to her ancestral motherland of Borinquen in November 2021 to begin the journey of reclaiming her rich Taino and African heritages. She lives in the coastal jewel of Loíza where she organizes cultural poetry events, battles the patriarchy, and fights for the liberation of her people.

Lola’s Lines ~ Because only we can tell our Herstories!

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Acknowledging the Indigenous Taino, the Arawak Peoples of Borinquen, on whose sacred soil my work is created. Honoring my wondrous Indigenous and African heritages.